This book considers why Taiwan matters independent of the China-centric paradigm by both examining anthropological research on Taiwan as well as how to study Taiwan anthropologically, re-asserting the ontological status of Taiwan as a legitimate object of scholarly inquiry.
This book situates Taiwan and Taiwanese actors at the center of knowledge production about Taiwan and re-asserts the ontological status of Taiwan as a legitimate object of scholarship in its own right.
Meanings of Why Taiwan? An Introduction 1.Why Taiwan Mattered: Oral
Histories from the US Cold War Anthropology of China in Taiwan
2. Taiwan
Doesnt Matter Until It Does, Navigating the Crossroads of China and Taiwan
Studies
3. Indigenous Lives Matter, The Relevance of Indigeneity to Taiwan
and to Anthropology
4. Learning via a Conduit, An Anthropological Encounter
with Taiwan in Mainland China
5. When a Local Invented Tradition Becomes
Heritage Culture for All of China, The Paradox of Taiwans Tea Art
6. From
Sea Goddess to Peace Goddess: The Export of Taiwans Cult of Mazu
7. Gambling
and Affect, Risking and Daring in Cold War Matsu
8. Revisiting Taiwanese
Food Culture, The Culinary Contact Zone of East and Southeast Asian Foodways
9. Worlding Taiwanese Aquaculture Technology, Science Diplomacy, Experts, and
Know-How Transfer
Shuenn-der Yu is a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Anru Lee is Professor of Anthropology and Global Asian Studies at John Jay College, the City University of New York, USA.
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